Central Energy Plants

Central Plants are upgraded for various reasons such as increase in load requirements, improvement of overall efficiency or to replace aging equipment. In most cases the facility must remain fully operation during the change-out, thus the work must be performed with little to no interruption of daily functions. This presents special challenges to the designer to develop a workable phased sequence of construction which may include the allocation of temporary space, securing sufficient power (sometimes on a temporary basis) to enable the facility to remain operational and that will allow installation and start-up of the new equipment while existing machinery continues to operate.